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Vigil of Prayer and Protest Against “Militarization” of Border
At a vigil on the Tohono O’odham reservation, community members prayed for lives lost in the desert and protested what they characterized as the militarization of the border.
Samantha Schmidt is an incoming senior at Indiana University, where she's pursuing majors in journalism and Arabic. She's interned at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Dow Jones Newswires in London. She has also served as Investigations Editor at the Indiana Daily Student for the past year. She will be spending the rest of the summer as a reporting intern at the Tampa Bay Times. She is a reporter at the Institute.
At a vigil on the Tohono O’odham reservation, community members prayed for lives lost in the desert and protested what they characterized as the militarization of the border.
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